Art-work and method of producing the same



. GARBUTT ART WORK AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-l, 19l6. 1,356,442.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. GARBUTT. 011 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

ART-WORK AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

Application filed August 1, 1916. Serial No. 112,607.

T 0 (2?? 20120222 52 may (0)1062'72-1 e it known that I. FRANK A. GARBUrr, a citizen of the Ynited States. residing at Los Angeles. in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have discovered and invented a new and useful Improvement in Artork and Methods of Producing the Same. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to art-work such as posters. wall-paper. motion picture announcements. motion picture films and motion pictures. and an object of this discovery and invention is to produce art-work of this character of a superior artistic appearance at a minimum cost.

This invention and discovery relates to the production by photographic treatment. and from natural objects. the effect of has-relief, intaglio. and other statuary, and relates to a new character of print or cut having a highly artistic appearance made in compara tively a short time with the appearance of having been made from actual statuary.

An object of this invention is to produce novel motion picture effects such for instance as movements of intaglio or bas-relief statuary on an otherwise flat wall.

I regard the invention as broadly new and pioneer in that I have produceda composite print composed of a plurality of impressions of a photographic subject. combined with a photographic impression of a modified translucent medium. said photographic impressions being preferably offset to produce relief eifect.

By photographically printing a sensitized photographic sheet from two photographic mediums. such for example as two negatives. two positives or a positive and negative and developing the print in the usual way. a more or less determined relief effect may be produced. and I have discovered that by printing through a modified translucent me dium or fabric. such as cheesecloth. the sensitized paper upon which photographic prints are made or the equivalents of such materials. a flat statuesque effect is produced in the print which so far as I am aware has heretofore only been approached by photographing actual statuary.

By this discovery and invention I havemade it possible to provide in a compara tively short time and at a greatly reduced cost. announcement slides'and pictures of a high artistic quality giving the appearance of having been produced from statuary of high merit and remarkable life-like expression and pose.

Further objects. advantages and features of novelty may appear from the accompanying drawings. the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The discovery and invention may be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a view of a photographic print superposed on a negative as employed in theproduction of this novel art-work.

Fig. 2 is a fragmental view of the photographic negative employed in producing such art-work.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental view of art-work made from the print and negative in Figs. 1 and 2 in accordance with my discovery and invention.

Fig. l is a section of the negative and print in position for printingthis novel art-work.

In conducting this new method I photographically produce a composite image by printing the same upon a sensitized surface through two mediums. each of which contains an image of the subject required to be produced in the cut or print.

My newly invented and discovered artwork comprises a print 1 composed of plural images 2, 3. of the same subject practically superposed upon a common surface and constituting in combination a mat body 4 and strong outlines 5. 6 representing relief borders and depressions.

I will now describe the method of'producing this newly invented and discovered print or cut.

First. photographic views 7. S of the same subject are produced in the ordinary way. These views may be on such translucentmaterial as glass or celluloid. paper. etc, or may be a negative 7. and a paper print 8 made therefrom. or may be two negatives or two prints. Said print may be made upon any well-known photographic paper or other material of a translucent character.

Then a photographically sensitized sheet 9 out of which the art-work is to be made is provided and the two elements 7, 8 are superposed upon the sheet 9 and the same is exposed to the light through the printing elements 7. 8 so as to produce on sheet 9 a photographic print which is then fixed in a wellknown way. The printing elements T, 8 are lllll produces the efiect ot a mat surface 6.

The result is that the print 1 being the third photograph from the one subject will be lack ng in detail and strong in outline, and will resemble photographic work made from carved or molded objects.

The plural images of the art-work thus produced are found to have distinctive litelite character and yet the, common border lines of the plural images are strengthened, the detail is reduced and a llat textural appearance, being the image of the photo graphic paper or composite images of a background, is given to the body of the figure, thus producing a flat edect suggestive of photographic reproduction of has-relief or intaglio statuary.

The work thus produced can be used as stereopticon slides for announcements in motion picture theaters and elsewhere or may serve as the original drawing for photo cuts, zinc etchings and the like, and may also serve as motion picture films.

Uther uses to which such art-work can be put may suggest themselves to those sln'lled in the art relating to the production and use of art-work.

In the art of projecting pictures on screens the film or slide will consist of a print made on transparent or translucent retain such picture projection, and the film or slide .will be used for projecting the composite image on'the screen in the usual way of projecting pictures from films or slides. Thus in the case or the. slide or film for announcements, the projection will give a. statuesque appearance to the projection and in the case of a motion picture projection a startling or interesting eflect of moving statuary or mural paintings or drawings may be produced.

ll claim:

1. The method of producing a motion picture cut or print which consists in photographically producing a composite image by printing a sensitized surface through two mediums each of which contains an image of the subject required to be produced in the cut or print, one of said mediums being of a textural character so as to produce a mat surface in the print.

2. The method of producing a motion picture cut or print which consists in photographically producing a composite image by printing a a sensitized surface through two mediums each of which contains an image of the subject required to be produced in the cut or print; disalining or otlsetting said mediums substantially as set forth so that certain border lines of the printed image will be strengthened and the details of said images will be modified, one of said mediums being of a textural character so as to produce a mat surface in the print.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 21st day of July, 1916.

1F RANK A. GAR-BUTT. Witness:

James ll. Towusnmi. 

